The CodeIgniter from Scratch series was unexpectedly, and significantly popular. Today, I’m pleased to announce that, with the help of one of my best authors, Burak, we’ll be continuing the series! Additionally, the most often requested topic is the subject for today’s screencast: combining CodeIgniter and jQuery.
Remember, it is not required that you watch the previous lessons in order to understand today’s screencast. It’s a self-contained article. However, if you’re new to CodeIgniter, we do recommend that you start from the beginning!
Catch Up
- Day 1: Getting Started With the Framework
- Day 2: Database Selecting Methods
- Day 3: Sending Emails
- Day 4: Newsletter Signup
- Day 5: CRUD
- Day 6: Login
- Day 7: Pagination
Day 8: AJAX
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Oh, it’s sad to see Jeffrey go from these tut’s, they were (still are) so good. Will give this a good watch later.
Is Jeffrey coming back?
Maybe, maybe not. Ever since I began managing CodeCanyon, I haven’t had much time left over. :( Don’t worry, Burak knows his stuff!
Keep it up, Codecanyon kicks ass!
Thankyou Burak for CI Series…
and We will be waiting for your tutorials Jeff.
NO MORE CODE IGNITOR TUTORIALS……..NO MORE CODE IGNITOR TUTORIALS……..NO MORE CODE IGNITOR TUTORIALS……..NO MORE CODE IGNITOR TUTORIALS……..NO MORE CODE IGNITOR TUTORIALS……..NO MORE CODE IGNITOR TUTORIALS……..NO MORE CODE IGNITOR TUTORIALS……..NO MORE CODE IGNITOR TUTORIALS……..NO MORE CODE IGNITOR TUTORIALS……..NO MORE CODE IGNITOR TUTORIALS……..NO MORE CODE IGNITOR TUTORIALS……..NO MORE CODE IGNITOR TUTORIALS……..NO MORE CODE IGNITOR TUTORIALS……..NO MORE CODE IGNITOR TUTORIALS……..
PLEASE FFS!! get back to how it use to be.
You misspelled CodeIgniter.
Gee enatom, you could always change the channel. I cant get enough codeigniter tuts
@enatom – Quite you! I’ve been waiting anxiously for this series to start back up!
@enatom – We are all happy but you…
Shut up Enatom
Thanks Burak for starting this back up. I love to refer forum patrons to these turorials. They are great. Watching yours right now.
Yay!
Finally, good to see such a great series kick started.
Love this serie ! happy that it’s back once again :D
Selam Burak Çalışmaların çok güzel hep takip ediyorum başarılarının devamı dileğiyle.Türkiyeden Selamlar…
Nice tutorial.
Teşekkürler.
Thank you.
Oh guys you saved my life!
We’ll miss Jeffrey!!!
This serie is a must-follow. I’m glad someone took the lead of it. Burak is a pretty good teacher too! I admit I miss Jeffrey though. He’s a codestar!
Hehe, codestar. I like that.
Great tutorials and good series for learning codeigniter
thanks
Oh hello welcome back!!
Good to see them live on!
Definitely going to miss Jeff on this one, however understandably a very busy guy.
Good work Burak, maybe liven it up a bit?
Thank you Burak Guzel!
I’ll miss Jeffrey’s voice though :)
OMG!!
Please Burak don’t stop this series again…
Thankyou!
Thanks so much for continuing the series, are you still going to follow the original plan of building a full featured blog?
Smashing Magazine yesterday had an article related to developing AJAX solutions. One of their methods of detecting a jQuery AJAX request uses the header that jQuery sends along when it makes the request:
if($_SERVER['HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH']==’XMLHttpRequest’){
This is content requested by AJAX.
}
This is great! I’ve just started a project with CodeIgniter and thanks to this series it’s going amazingly fast. Ajax in CI was the next thing I had to implement in the project.
Keep up the great series!
Yes I vote for this great series…
Please share Codeigniter + Doctrine Screencast Series…
That would be excellent. That has my vote. Anyone Listening? @BrianDHall if you frequent these, you’re my vote to do this tutorial (I’m sure you have time.) :)
This tutorial is horrible i’ve been jQuering for months and using jQuery’s ajax functions very well.
This is just horrible.
he could have for example just used this.action in the jQuery’s url:
field.
Actually that is not good either. It will conflict with input values named ‘action’, which is quite common. Correct use is this:
url: $(this).attr(‘action’)
Is there any other reason that the tutorial is “horrible”?
Perfect timing! I’m building a social app in CodeIgniter and was just looking into adding AJAX to it this morning.
Good tut Burak, I dont know Ajax or Jquery but will try to learn it through tuts like this.
You do however need to learn to open and close programs real fast like Jeffery did, keeps us on our toes. :)
Loved this tutorial.
The next codeigniter tutorial should be about Hooks or Security!
Burak has cold??
Meanwhile a nice tut,
34min screencast is only 50MB with some nice Quality…
Nice RIP! Thanks :)
Yeah – I thought the same thing. Burak, how did you get the file size so small?
I didn’t do anything special. I just used the default quality setting in Camtasia, which is at 50%. The file size grows pretty fast when you increase it.
Awesome!
What about tutorial for multi language site with database ? I
Ah, Thanks Burak, Jeffrey Way seems to be busy these days ;)
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Thanks! =D
Wow its been a long time …. no sign of Jeff but its cool ,,
thanks Burak ,
NO MORE CODE IGNITOR TUTORIALS
@enatom , why?
He obviosuly thought it was opposites day.
ha ha! ya I love these tutorials. Keep them going please!
Great job Burak,
CIfS will be safe in your hands.
finally :-)
I have been waiting for ages for the next day :-)
Please show us how to use components from the Zend-framework.
Would love to see some cakePHP tuts as well!
WOW! We all were waiting for this. Thanks a lotttttttttttt.
I’ve been waiting sooooooooooo long for this series to be continue.
Many Thanks
Burak, thanks for the screencast. I’ll watch it today. Nice move, Jeffrey, to let Burak continue the series, smart move in this troubled times for NetTuts :)
I have 2 questions, though, for Burak: Do the messages set in the validation rules appear back when the form is submitted? I tried once to combine jQuery AJAX with CI. It was a form with form_validation rules. It didn’t work for me then.
And another: It is possible to have ONE controller to send back a message to the same view if the form in the view was submitted successfully? I mean, if the form is sent correctly, I don’t want to load another view, just put a message above the form: SUBMITTED.
Great! I’m glad to see new tutorials about CI!
yay! happy to see this series come back to live!
Keep de CI tuts coming!
dudes… throw out CI… I think you must use framework which is strict PHP5… why? Because of the future… PHP4 is old and I think must die as fast as it can be… Stop using PHP4 and frameworks compatible with it. Yes CI is easy to learn, but it’s hard to customize this framework for specific tasks and this framework still supports PHP4! This is two main disadvantages why I’m stop to learn and use CI.
I think I must to use Codeigniter. Because its documentation es great, because its forum is great, because there are plenty of tuturial out there, and, YES, because is easy to learn.
It supports PHP4, but using php4 or not is up to all of us. Has nothing to do with codeigniter itself.
It’s a good framework for beginners, well documented and has a big community. But I somewhat agree that it is not future-proof.
This is where Zend comes in and says `hello, how may I serve you?` :)
But, if I develop a app which is running in a PHP5 server and everything work just right, why could this app be not future-proof, since it’s already running over a PHP5 server. Can’t see your point guys.
If framework still supports php4 it means that this framework is not using functions which is only in PHP5 and as you know there are a lot usefull things in PHP5. Or you think PHP5 is still the same as PHP4 and don’t have functions which was improved or it is just new functions? Of course I’m talking about the core of framework, because other parts which will be written by you, can use these. But common, why I should use framework with the core written in the way which is still runs on PHP4…
Hey man I totally agree with you. If you guys are gonna use CI, then only use it as a stepping stone. I moved into Kohana from CI and I think Kohana is great and will hold up much better in the future than CI.
Hey Burak, really enjoyed the Tutorial, could you go a step a head and show us how to put the contact message in the database. I would really appreciate.
Good Work Mate!
It should be simple…
1. validation
2. save data into db using some method from model
3. show status info about saving data into db (option)
Thank you.
I suggest you watch the day 5 (unless you already have), which covers the basic database operations:
http://net.tutsplus.com/videos/screencasts/codeigniter-from-scratch-day-5-crud/
This is a great series. Hopefully we’ll see more?
Good work Burak!
Good tutorials but I prefer Jeffrey’s voice !
I see you have Intellisense when typing, and autocomplete.
Is that because you are working with a Project in Aptana?
Yes, Aptana has autocomplete features.
How can I set up Intellisense/Autocompletion for CodeIgniter in Aptana Studio 2.0 and what is your Color Setting in Aptana?
Can you please explain this. Many thanks.
I found this -> http://r15ch13.de/tag/aptana-3/
Thanks, great screencast.
Are you from some Balkan country? You sound like you are :)
Ohh, just saw you’re from Turkey :) Greetings from Serbia :)
Greetings from Croatia too :)
Greetings :)
Zomg! Thanks for starting this screencast again! :)
Just a few tips:
1. Instead of relying on javascript to check if it’s an ajax request you could just use this in the controller:
if(isset($_SERVER['HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH']) AND strtolower($_SERVER['HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH']) === ‘xmlhttprequest’))
{
//ajax request
}
2. instead of manually passing the values($(‘#name’).val()) you could save in a variable the serialized form.
var data = $(‘form’).serialize();
The array key passed back would be the name attribute of each input field.
3. You don’t need to use php in javascript to have the url. Simply save in a variable the action attribute of the form.
var url = $(‘form’).attr(‘action’)
Regards.
1. I read about this one recently. But I also saw someone mention that not all browsers may send this. I wanted to test it myself before starting to use it.
2. and 3. Thanks for the tips. They are indeed useful shortcuts.
@2, could that also be used for CI
$insert_data = array(
‘name’ => $this->input->post(‘firstname’),
‘lname’ => $this->input->post(‘lname’),
etc.
).
looking for a faster way to pass the vars from a form
Great, I was looking forward to the next installment of the series.
YEAH…Good work Burak,keep `em commin’ :)
Finally after a loooooooooooooong time the series is back…
I would like it to be completed as it was said in 1st tutorial
Really great work
Hey I’d like to see a tutorial on using self installed libraries, e.g. we could implement an authentication library and work with it.
This would also cover my request of a more advanced login system, which supports email verification and different user profile pages.
Keep up the good work…
Thanks for the tutorial, great work.
Which PHP plugin do you use for Aptana?
Is codeIgniter Support for custom plug-ins like ruby on rails does ?
I am not familiar with RoR but CodeIgniter does support user created plug-ins. You can find a lot of them in the CI community and wiki pages.
Awesome screencast! So glad to see the CI series back in action.
Jeffrey, could you possibly try to get CodeIgniter from Scratch days 2 & 5 into the iTunes feed?
This is one series I would like to keep for future reference, but not all episodes of the series are available on iTunes…
Can’t wait for more!
Thanks Burak for keep the codeigniter from scratch alive, It is great. Greetings from Mexico